New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-07
LONG BRANCH GOSSIP.
CHIEFLY ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
TWO wELL-KN0wN wIDows-PoIIrIcIASs AND
BUSINESS MEN-soCIAL NOTES.

I,oSo BRANCH Aug 6-Mrs John L. Raymond has
been here this week. She was accompanied oy MISS
Kate NJ FORSYTH, the charming actress VINO was TOT
several wears the leading lady OF Mr.. Raymcnos com
many They took apartments at one OF te ootV'Sos III
toIiy vn,d II WAS tho first time Mrs. RAYMOND mas
been here since the death OF her husband Inc mem
ories of her former here, wnen M h'S""n"
was constantly by her side saddened her lac, as She
sat on the cottage piazza For years 'onh l. ~
mona v as one of the most popular guests here. ms
know almost everybody and was always iull Oh iuh
and ready to tell q good story or two lie was
liberal subsciber to all charitable ana reilgious
objects and was always anxious 70 extend a heipih9
hand 20 the unfortunate. Ii vii be many years beipre
he il forgotten by the fhIaReIS DO Won Us INV "o'
guests and cottagers.
Mira Cornelius X. Garrison is now occupying her
elegant villa Ocean-ave., near Elberon. Shs oilVes
daily up end down tho principal thofousni"res Oh
Long Branch. accompanied by her hanosome, ""i.e-
bair1 father Mr. John w. Randall, oil st. Louis She
ia n blonde with stylish figure and bright golden
ha,r The romantic story OF her courship makes her
nm object OF great interest to the young women anu
their admirers
There is a number Of well-knovn New-Jersey poll
t;ci,ns at Lelaud's Ocean Hotel. Prominent among
them il ex-Congressman Miles Ross. OF The lilo DIS
triot who is generally known IA =" the statesman OF
Cheeseouakes Creek" In seeking to make himself
poouar in his district Mr. Ross became an ardent sup
uorter of the big River and Harbor steal He secured
heavy anpropriation for the improyeme nj OF Checse
onokes reek. a little stream which flows into Rartan
Raw near South Amboy. When he was renominaied
the creek killed him.
One of the politicians constantly seen Wild Mr hoss
"a :, short aud rather st0utiy built man with loud
voice who acts if he owned the entire state OF Ne"
,ersev Il Ia the vociierous and bounding Assembly,
man from Essex County lie is The man who was 80
nromnent IN the dsgraceul scenes which occurred al
Trenton last winter during ths cohteSl oNer 'ho
Unitel States Senatorship. His ruiiany manners ex-
cseded apythiag previously witnessed in the state
L,b lad fh.
r.atv bsoed to deet the candidate he tried to sup
port ex- Governor Leon Albeit
There Is a gang OF blackmailcrs at work along the
coast They closely watch female guests ot the hotels
ana then write them letters threatening TO expose
them il they are not well paid. Cue weii-sno"n
orr,ad lad received three of these letters this week.
The writer threatened to let her husband know OF
several trips she had made to Pleasure nay with
handsome young man who had not caileh upon her
when her husband was here. Her goodiJoklno COM
,apon at the soft shell crab dinners at fie1snle Bay
is her own brother who did not speak to her husband
fecause of a business difference between them. lhe
lady had good crying spell over the last epste ana
then teIecraphed to her husband. lie came down Ill
the first train and was shown tho letters lie oeeane
reconced to his brotherln-law. The next day
vonng man who had been boarding In private cot
taae lett ON an early train Tor Ne6-YOrk Ills lace
was badly on. and be- could hardly Walk Ii was the
writer OF tho three letters The husband and brother
had been to see him
Iono Branch and is frequently seen driving on Ocean
ava His summer home is handsome cottage stand
,ng IN the centre OF well-kept lawn. III nis Wiue
pszzis where the sheriff passes many pleasant nonfs
litte gronp, OF his intimate friends In spite oil
au hs Efforts to keep the location OF the cottage
secret excepting to few chosen spirits the genlai
Sheriff is constantly oyerrun with pohueianS III the
Moses Fraley the famous grain operator OF st.
Ions il a familiar Lure on The pazzds or the west
Ind Hotel lie ia the man VINO tailed three or four
Inv Z me-
Up all his property and then owed about Two 1itohs
OF dolisr- Inside OF two years he had pam aoaf Ior
dolt including interest, and now has fortune esl
,nated nj over one million. His wIts has the most
os ant Gowns worn here. She never wears tue same
dress twice N public, and has an Immense qd"nuty OF
0ns of he new social lions here is young cattle
kin, from the West named Stewart lie ha' charge OF
a ranch ON which over 10000 head OF cato are lat-
teninJ for the market lie has roughed II Tor several
vears among his employees. ana ca1 ride and shoot
yyith the best OF the cowboys. lie wears me most
costly and fashionable cIcthhe' Dut 10 1'"-~ .eo"
OF culture and brains c c,
Gould aoyt and Gerald l. .Hoyt, botH oil New-1orN,
are AT the Ilrlly wood cottages. -
lame, NJ Lyddy, the young New.York lawyer,
wIose ater-dinner speeches attracted so much aten-
lion in England IL a tceauent visitor mere ..
The Rev. ana Mrs. George Dana Boardman' oil Phii-
ad-lpha arc new arrivals al the Windsor cottages;
Mr.. Ned harrr gtou and MSS ida branam' her
lister. Who are at bury Park, gave a dinner at
Pleasure Bay this week. They arc stopping at the
Coleman House in the Park. g.,
Es-Goyernor Shepherd, OF the District OF CoumDh,
Ia at w burton the Sea, near Spring LAKE Beach
The shugtOnans who are spending the summer
on the coas: Will give ann reception Monddy
MIR aud Mrs II. :. Ladew, OF New-fo'k' VINO nave
Cottage No 3 ut HOLLYWOOD, have as their guest
Holly COe also OF New-lolk A.,
MIR aud Mrs. James g. Blaine. ir., are anon the
daily visitors here. hey are occupying apartments
al the Hotel Shrewsbury. just north OF SeaDt gu;
Delaney Nieoll ia a now guest at the ..ho'ei
Brighton. a., III. . . .,,o,. % .ho
Louis Leo STATION, OF Ne"-ioiN 30 " s"'' VI ''
West End Hotel - ..,s
with the Gladstone testimonial, has arrived al 'he
- Mr., and Mrs Franklin Harper and their children
are late corners at the Elbernn
United States Senator Mcpherson. OF Now-Jersey,
will sncnd SUNDAY ut Leland's Ocean Hotel
The Countess de Caumont has taken r0ons Mt one
of the cottages OF Hollywood , . >,
lohn Jaw Knox the ex-COn;roller of the United
States Treasury has his handsome signature on the
register OF the Hollywood Cottage Hotel
Imong the latest arry ais at the Hotel Brighton are
Mr. aud Mrs J. d. Gillespie, OF New-folk.
Mr. and Mrs. j.. c. Babcock, OF New Ork, are
settled at the West End Hotcl until September l.
John L. Murphy. the directory publisher OF Phil
| ,delohia and the proprietor of The Trenton Daily
,,azette" is here with Mrs Murphy and his daughter
The Revs p. p. Kennedy and j. L. Norde both OF
Ner.lIayen ere booked at the United States iiotel.
d. w. Ii. Pancoast and Dr. Thompson, oil Phladel-
| phia are soourni1g AZ the Eiberon.
| Mr. and Mrs. W. Ii. Adle. of New-York' arc at
| Lelands Ocean Hotel.
Araoua the new corners at the hollywood cottages
are Alexander lludnut DIR. and Mira Charles Phelps
| James Speyer G. q. Reynolds, Dr. and Mrs John j.
Mason OF New York Mr.. ana Mrs. A. A. Folsom. OF
Ro,ton Professor and Mrs. William Dwight whitney
and Miss whitney of New Haven Mrs Charles T.
| Parry Mr. and Mrs James Baird Mr. and Mrs. VIII
| lam A. Parry Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald u Haynes
| OF Philadelphia.
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